Hidden discrimination encountered every day

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Darking

It sometimes seems one of the biggest challenges of living with a disability isn’t always the disability itself, but how other people respond to it. I also sometimes wonder how quickly people make assumptions when they see someone behaving differently, walking slowly, struggling to remember something or needing assistance.

Discrimination isn’t always an openly offensive remark. It can be being spoken to as though you cannot understand, having decisions made for you, or being judged without anyone taking the time to understand your others.

Have you experienced people making assumptions about your abilities because of your disability?

Have you ever felt that you were treated differently simply because you needed help?

And do you think society genuinely understands invisible and fluctuating disabilities?

Littlefatfriend

Interesting subject thanks Darking.
My Asian and Oriental ex-partners found prejudice in all sorts of surprising places, and worked out other people to talk to/work with.
In my experience that's the trick.
In my experience the world is packed full of w*nkers and rsholes who like to assume other people are more weak than themselves.
All assumptions about people really do put an ass before u and I.
That makes those assumers weak.

Time and again people (including me) have assumed things about my disability, but they/I were rarely correct.
I'm often treated differently in ways that are positive to me. That's all good. I try to avoid needing help but we all do that sometimes.

Society is made of individuals. I don't know (let alone understand) anything about you. Except that you have a good eye for an interweb nickname.
As I can't predict it, I don't properly understand my disability.
I wouldn't expect anyone else to.
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